Maritime Accidents

The Unified Command announces all 95 containers that fell overboard from the vessel Mississippi at Pier G have been recovered in and around the Port of Long Beach Sept. 26, 2025.

A worker has died in an accident in connection with a lifting operation at Equinor's refinery at Mongstad.

Salvage operations have begun in order to open a channel to allow ships to safely transit to and from Pier G at the Port of Long Beach following an incident on Tuesday morning that caused an estimated 75 shipping containers to fall from the cargo ship Mississippi.

A smaller emissions capture barge was connected to Mississippi at the time of the accident and was damaged

A fishing vessel that ran aground off Alaska's Afognak Island has leaked an estimated 3,000 to 3,500 gallons of diesel fuel from punctured tanks into the Gulf of Alaska, state officials said.

It was launched on June 14, 2022. In October-November 2023, it was transported via Russia’s inland waterways to the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg for completion.

A Russian port in the Baltic Sea has ordered ship hulls to be inspected before allowing them to dock.

A tanker hauling 1 million barrels of oil suffered an explosion while near Libya, its manager said Monday.

Two large oil tankers, including a sanctioned vessel carrying Russian crude, caught fire after colliding near the Strait of Hormuz, raising concerns among global oil traders and shipping operators.

A man in Norway woke up to find a huge container ship had run aground and crashed into his front garden.

A ceremony to welcome a new addition to North Korea’s naval fleet has ended in embarrassment following a major accident during the ship’s launch that the country’s dictator, Kim Jong-un, described as a “criminal act”.

A detailed analysis of a full-sized digital scan of the Titanic has revealed new insight into the doomed liner's final hours.